CVE-2026-118779

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used pem.decode(), lib/pem.js, missing END line to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge used polynomial-time regular expressions in pem.decode(), including when searching for a matching END line and parsing encapsulated headers. An unauthenticated attacker able to supply PEM input to any high-level parser could consume excessive CPU with a long malformed message and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

• CWE-400
• CWE-1333

• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/412345db583cd28a9d23636d0d93e9f751b935f3
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x

Published

Oct 29, 2026

Last Modified

Oct 30, 2026

Status

Awaiting Analysis

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